Financial Support
INS students receive a 12-month renewable graduate assistantship of
$26,500 plus tuition remission and a medical benefits plan. There is a
maximum of 4 weeks of vacation time per year (with permission of advisor or
program director). Travel funds of up to $500 per year are available for
each student to present their research at major national or international
meetings.
Beyond these graduate assistantships, exceptionally qualified applicants
will be considered for the following prestigious fellowships.
Presidential Fellows
The President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, invites
outstanding candidates to apply to Ph.D. programs for consideration as
Presidential Fellows.
- $35,000 annual fellowship stipends for 2 years
- Full tuition and medical fee remission
- Mentorship in applying for prestigious national or international
fellowships
- Additional years of support for candidates sustaining good
standing in their program.
Successful candidates are expected to have demonstrated outstanding academic
accomplishments and exceptional promise for success in research in their
chosen discipline. Candidates are nominated by the INS Program Director.
Norman Samuels Fellowship
These fellowships provide a one-time award (a signing bonus) for
exceptionally qualified applicants. Candidates are nominated by the Program
Director on the basis of their application materials.
INS Fellowships
Students awarded this competitive fellowship will receive a supplement to
bring their stipend to $2,000 above the normal stipend award. Students who
receive an external award higher than that amount will not receive a
supplement. All students will continue to receive program-paid health
insurance.
NINDS Neuroscience Training Grant
The Integrative Neuroscience Program, in conjunction with the University of
Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, announces a training program in
“Integrative Neuroscience in Health and Disease” funded by the National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, which will support 2
predoctoral students and 2 postdoctoral fellows annually.
The goals of this training grant are to 1) train neuroscientists who
have a broad understanding and acquaintance with the sub-fields of
neuroscience and 2) provide financial support to collaborative research
projects that join laboratories with differing intellectual and/or
experimental expertise. These goals are aimed at producing neuroscientists
who will work on the entire breadth of neurological disease including
degenerations, drug addiction, obesity, epilepsy, pain, and language and
learning disorders, and at promoting interaction among fields of
neuroscience from behavior to molecular biology to stimulate innovative and
therapeutic breakthroughs.
The program builds upon the successful joint program between the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Rutgers University in
Newark. Trainees, therefore, will have access to the facilities of both
schools, which lie within minutes of each other. The 35 faculty mentors are
distributed between the two schools and are members of 9 different basic and
clinical science departments as well as members of the Integrative
Neuroscience Program, the Howard Hughes Quantitative Neuroscience Program,
and the Program in Biomedical Engineering.
The program will have advisors for both pre- and postdoctoral trainees,
as well as student and postdoctoral representatives to ensure a high quality
of supervision, a fulfilling training experience, and successful career
advancement.
Training faculty
For Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience:
Joshua Berlin, Annie Beuve,
Stella Elkabes, Wilma Friedman, Richard Howells, G. Miller Jonakait, Eldo
Kuzhikandathil, Robert Ledeen, Steve Levison, Joseph McArdle, Andrew Pachner,
Christine Rohowsky-Kochan, Ellen Townes-Anderson, Teresa Wood, Jiang-Hong
Ye, Marco Zarbin.
For Systems Neuroscience:
Elizabeth Abercrombie Gyorgy Buzsaki, Ken
Harris, Barry Levin, Farzan Nadim, Denis Pare, Vanessa Routh, Hreday, Sapru,
Allan Siegel, Ralph Siegel, James Tepper, Laszlo Zaborsky.
For Behavior and Cognition:
April Benasich. John DeLuca, Mark
Gluck, Joan Morrell, Richard Servatius, Paula Tallal.
Applicants should contact the training program director (Ellen
Townes-Anderson) or the individual faculty listed above. Contact information
and research information are available on the
INS Information Portal. All candidates must be US citizens or permanent
residents. Doctoral students are supported after successful completion of
the Qualifying Exams. Postdoctoral support is for 1-2 years and is available
for postdoctoral fellows at any level.
For more information, please contact:
Ellen Townes-Anderson PhD
Director of NINDS Training Grant in Integrative Neuroscience
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience
New Jersey Medical School-UMDNJ
andersel@umdnj.edu
973-972-7392